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Director Robina Qureshi said: “This is the hostile environment on Scottish soil, vulnerable refugees, many from Syria, Iraq, Eritrea, and Afghanistan, endure systematic cruelty at the hands of an asylum system that fast tracks them into “refused” asylum status, then leaves them destitute. It needs to be remembered that many of the asylum seekers that Serco intends to evict are pursuing their legal cases and have their decisions overturned on appeal.

"Destitution is a cheap way for the UK government not to support the vulnerable in our society, and create an underclass of exploited, invisible human beings with no purpose or hope.”

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Serco director Jenni Halliday said: “We’ve been providing housing free of charge to over 300 former asylum seekers who no longer have the right to stay in the UK.

“Each of these former asylum seekers has been refused the right to stay in the UK by the Government and the Home Office does not fund Serco to provide them with accommodation.

“While we’re sympathetic to their plight, we believe we have been more than supportive of these individuals by providing them with an additional period of housing in which to make alternative arrangements but we cannot continue to provide free housing indefinitely. We have therefore started legal proceedings to repossess our properties.”